These are the first images that NASA’s Curiosity sent back from Mars

The two photos, that we captured from the live feed, show the rover casting its shadow on the red planet, after it landed having successfully negotiated the much-talked about “seven-minutes of terror”.

NASA’s page of RAW images is struggling to load under the huge amount of interest in the mission, but here is the historic first image from Curiosity itself, which came via Twitter, of course.